What We Did in Bed: A Horizontal History (Fagan Brian)(Pevná vazba)

What We Did in Bed: A Horizontal History (Fagan Brian)(Pevná vazba)

Pulling back the covers on the fascinating, yet often forgotten, history of the bed Louis XIV ruled France from his bedchamber. Winston Churchill governed Britain from his during World War II. Travelers routinely used to bed down with complete strangers, and whole families shared beds in many

Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors (Fagan Brian)(Pevná vazba)

A thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive. Man-made climate change may have began in the last two hundred years, but humankind has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not

Winning World War II: A Complete Illustrated History (Schonauer David)(Pevná vazba)

How exactly did we win the war? In a stunningly visual syyle, this illustrated book chronicles World War II from the early rise of Germany's dictator, to the landing of troops in Normandy and the eventual victory over evil. More than seventy-five years ago, the greatest conflict in the history of

The History of Torture (Innes Brian)(Pevná vazba)

Black History for Beginners (Dennis Denise)(Paperback)

What is Black History? Did you know what blacks were in Cortez's crew in Mexico, with Pizarro in Peru and Alvarado in Quito...that when Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean, 30 black people were with him....that when Alarcon and Coronado conquered Mexico, black people were with them too? Any

On Boredom (Morris Susan)(Pevná vazba)

An idiosyncratic volume featuring artwork and essays on the history of boredom. What do we mean when we say that we are bored? Contributors to this volume, which include artists, art historians, psychoanalysts, and a novelist, examine boredom in its manifold and uncertain reality. Each part of the

Crafting History (Yaneva Albena)(Pevná vazba)

What constitutes an archive in architecture? What forms does it take? What epistemology does it perform? What kind of craft is archiving? Crafting History provides answers and offers insights on the ontological granularity of the archive and its relationship with architecture as a complex

What Katy Did (Coolidge Susan)(Pevná vazba)

A treasured children's classic, Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did is a vivid story of childhood bravery with a feisty heroine at its heart. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful

In Ancient Egypt (Vallepur Shalini)(Pevná vazba)

Did the Romans really use bum sponges? What are the four humours? Who were the berserkers and why did the Egyptians worship cats? Delve deep into the past and read all about the wacky, weird and wonderful things that people used to do - you'll be saying `people did what?' in no

In Ancient Rome (Vallepur Shalini)(Pevná vazba)

Did the Romans really use bum sponges? What are the four humours? Who were the berserkers and why did the Egyptians worship cats? Delve deep into the past and read all about the wacky, weird and wonderful things that people used to do - you'll be saying `people did what?' in no

In Ancient Greece (Vallepur Shalini)(Pevná vazba)

Did the Romans really use bum sponges? What are the four humours? Who were the berserkers and why did the Egyptians worship cats? Delve deep into the past and read all about the wacky, weird and wonderful things that people used to do - you'll be saying `people did what?' in no

Fall or, Dodge in Hell (Stephenson Neal)(Paperback / softback)

What if we could live forever?What if we did?In Fall or, Dodge in Hell exists a world where we hold the keys to our own mortality, where the limits of survival no longer exist, and the potential to decide our fates lies in our corruptible hands.From one of the greatest speculative writers of our

We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (Gaddis John Lewis)(Paperback)

Did the Soviet Union want world revolution? Why did the USSR send missiles to Cuba? What made the Cold War last as long as it did? The end of the Cold War makes it possible, for the first time, to begin writing its history from a truly international perspective. Based on the latest findings of Cold

What We Leave Behind (Crasneanscki Stephan)(Pevná vazba)

A Secular Age (Taylor Charles)(Pevná vazba)

What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we--in the West, at least--largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up

Algorithms to Live by: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Christian Brian)(Paperback)

What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of the new and familiar is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not. Computers, like us, confront limited space and time, so computer scientists

Jasper Morrison: The Hard Life (Morrison Jasper)(Pevná vazba)

By what means did so much beauty and ingenuity appear in articles of everyday rural life in Portugal? How did the shape of these objects balance necessity and formal perfection so skillfully? This book explores the effect that generations of trial and error, individual craftsmanship, and an

In Flanders Fields (Busby Brian)(Pevná vazba)

Lady's Handbook For Her Mysterious Illness (Ramey Sarah)(Pevná vazba)

What Elizabeth Wurtzel did for depression, what Dave Eggers did for bereavement, Sarah Ramey does for women's

Tuscany in the Age of Empire (Brege Brian)(Pevná vazba)

A new history explores how one of Renaissance Italy's leading cities maintained its influence in an era of global exploration, trade, and empire. The Grand Duchy of Tuscany was not an imperial power, but it did harbor global ambitions. After abortive attempts at overseas colonization and direct

Poems to Help Your Christian Walk (Taylor Brian)(Paperback)

No matter what stage we go through in our walk with Jesus, we need encouragement and we need to experience His joy and peace. Jesus brings us joy and peace during troubling times if we walk in His truth according to His Word. I hope these poems strengthen your relationship with our great God and

What is Life? - Understand Biology in Five Steps (Nurse Paul)(Pevná vazba)

'A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN EXPLORATION OF PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION IN SCIENCE.' BRIAN COX ----- Life is all around us, abundant and diverse, it is extraordinary. But what does it actually mean to be

Typographic Firsts (Boardley John)(Pevná vazba)

How were the first fonts made? Who invented italics? When did we figure out how to print in color? Many of the standard features of printed books were designed by pioneering typographers and printers in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Johannes Gutenberg is credited with printing the

Empire, Emergency and International Law (Reynolds John)(Pevná vazba)

What does it mean to say we live in a permanent state of emergency? What are the juridical, political and social underpinnings of that framing? Has international law played a role in producing or challenging the paradigm of normalised emergency? How should we understand the relationship between